Furze

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Furze \Furze\, n. [OE. firs, As. fyrs.] (Bot.)
     A thorny evergreen shrub ({Ulex Europ[ae]us}), with beautiful
     yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of
     Great Britain; -- called also {gorse}, and {whin}. The dwarf
     furze is {Ulex nanus}.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  furze
       n : very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant
           golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
           [syn: {gorse}, {whin}, {Irish gorse}, {Ulex europaeus}]